The last time I tried to try something with my Nokia phone I realized a lack of a "starting point" threads on using Nokias with puppy.
This thread aims to pool the knowledge from many "I need help with my model 1234 nokia" threads.
..and hopefully provide a starting point for beginners and experts alike
trying to do stuff with Nokias and Puppy together.

I am no expert -but hopefully enough Nokia-Puppy users will jump on the bandwagon and add corrections and experience to this thread and make the whole process a little less confusing for newbies.

First the principles

Connection1. Serial Cable
This is for older phones and perhaps the least problematic.
Usually no special drivers are needed- the hard work is in getting
the software setup right to read the correct serial "tty" port (i.e. gnokii's .gnokiirc file).

In essence get your bluetooth working and communicating with the phone before you try any programs.
Using a startup script helps. In the above mentioned thread I have two Xdialog based scripts that may get you going.

Once you have installed the .pets for BlueZ, Dbus and Obex (you can find them in the thread above), then the following script could work. I've commented it for understanding:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
rm /var/run/dbus/dbus.pid #delete the lockout for dbus if it was left behind from a bad shutdown
dbus-daemon --system #start the dbus system
hcid #start the hci stuff
modprobe rfcomm #get the rfcomm bit going
modprobe hci-usb #need this as I have a usb bluetooth adapter
hciconfig hci0 up #wake it up
hciconfig # not sure but you need this line somehow
passkey-agent --default 123 & #allow a 123 password to connect with the phone

Then you can either start an rfcomm connection to allow use of programs like Gnokii and access phone specific stuff like sms or contacts:

Or use Obex to mount an Obex file system and then view it with Rox - great for simple copying of photos, music, etc.

Code:

obexftp -b 00:15:2A:20:7E:41 -l #replace the number with your phone's MAC
obexfs -b 00:15:2A:20:7E:41 -B 10 /mnt/bluetooth #again, replace the MAC - the 10 is the channel number - most Nokias use 10 for obex
rox /mnt/bluetooth/ # open up the folder and have a look

Programs
As far as I know there is no Linux version of Nokia PC Suite. Fortunately there are programs that do some of the tasks of it and in many cases much much faster than PC Suite in Winblows.

With Gnokii you can send sms, copy and export sms, work your calendar and contacts.
Note - as far as I can try it has difficulties uploading contacts with more than one number per name to the phone
The hardest part is the configuration script .gnokiirc that lives in your root folder.
The homepage for gnokii is quite good, and heaps of threads for other distros usually help.
http://www.gnokii.org/
Best to try and find an example script for you phone from the above site or google it, make small modifications
and then test if it works with

Code:

gnokii --identify

If you get good feedback then you are ready for other features of xgnokii or gnokii
Note: The xgnokki icons may not show up in your menus on all versions of puppy.
Make sure xgnokii.desktop is in usr/share/applications and when you open it with a text editor and check if it has a valid category like "calendar".

Also through my experience Xgnokii is great, but for real power use use gnokii at the command line

Wammu/Gammu
Wammu is the gui frontend for gammu.
I have compiled both and made a .pet - but still need someone to host it
- It needs wx-python and the entire picture is a little mb heavy for me
see:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27298
It looks good, more along the PC suite lines but it is actually quite buggy.
I would recommend either waiting till it gets better or use it and help the developers with lots of good error
feedback.
http://wammu.eu/http://www.gammu.org/

Similar to gnokii, get gammu configured at the command line before using wammu. Wammu's inbuilt autoconfiguration is unreliable, but if the .gammurc file works for your phone, wammu will notice it.

Gammu has its own configuration utility to make it easier. (check the website for the command)

To test your configuration:

Code:

gammu --identify

Other software
There are a few other programs out there, usually spinoffs from gnokii
Try them and add comments if you like.

Nokia Phone as a Modem
I have not tried this but others have. Puppy 4.1 apparently has some new wizard features for doing such things.

It seems from my limited knowledge if you can get the connection to the phone to work (usb, usb.serial, bluetooth) then you may be in a good position to do the rest. Unfortunately I don't have a clear step by step on the principles.

In essence to do it the right modprobe commands need to be set to make you phone work as device:

there is an obex tool in ubuntu that does some good phone related things (so i have read). maybe try getting obex tool into upup. (attempted but never found the persistence to actually get there myself.)
else some new things here to me. one day i will get this to work and then i can dump my nokia phone forever. now it is a daunting task to manually transfer over all the info to a new non-nokia phone. my ca42 cable seems to have been blacklisted by XP because it wont now work there on any of the many machines i have tried. refuse to even see the previously see-able driver so I cant use PCsuite any more.
still can and often use the CA42 cable for gprs connect in puppy though. no, there is no removable SDcard on my phone. no bluetooth, and infra red has never work from the absolute beginning._________________
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I am too newbie so most of the Dpup and Upup crash when I go to their repository and then try to pupsave it after install. I am not experienced enough to get it working.

I maybe buy Nokia N900 eventually so would be cool to be able to use it in linux too. It already have a version of linux on it. Maemo which will update to Megoo linux later. Meego or Megoo? = Maemo + Moblin._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Thanks I have to test this. Lost internet three times now for hours.
So would be cool to be able to use the ordinary computer and the smart phone as a modem and get internet that way.

pemasu sorry I missed the joke. Nokia is connecting people to M$ Microsoft Windows 8 maybe or to Meego but that is kind of too late?
The N9 is suppose to be Meego but not many care do they. Kind of sad that Meego was that late coming out so it failed to get popular._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

Now I get curious on if I can use it as a modem but realize that teh operator charge much money for using it so I will do it on my android instead. That one is only 3SEK per day in cost._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though